Geologists, climatologists,
anthropologists and astrophysicists examine dust to generate data.
That may be all they have in common, even if it is a small overlap in
the larger picture they each look at in their respective fields. Dust
can be a fleeting particle with a finite amount of information that
can be derived from it before examination corrupts the data. There is
no room for warm fuzzies when data from three diverse schools of
science is crunched down to address a single question – what is
live going to be like twenty years from now?
Twenty years can be a long time in a
reality measured in nanoseconds. The same time period is more
fleeting than a nanosecond in a discussion about a 120,000 year
cycle, especially when that twenty year period is at a major
transition point in that cycle. We don't know and the data isn't all
in regarding that question. Check back in twenty years and we might
have enough data to express an opinion. The real knowledge of what
the next twenty years will be like won't be discovered until much
later. The implications behind the question suggests that there will
be something different enough about the next twenty years to merit
some projections based upon current scientific knowledge. That's a
lot of weight that has to be carried by a few collective grains of
dust over a vast pool of non-integrated systems of information
collecting and analysis.
Climatologists know that there is a
cycle of Ice Age periods and data collected over the past 25 years
has revealed that these cycles function in a much different manner
than had been originally thought. It doesn't take several hundred
years for the transition to occur. It takes less than a decade. In
some parts of the world it can happen in a 24 hour period. That
became obvious when woolly mammoths were discovered in glaciers
standing upright with grass in their mouth, frozen on the spot and
entombed in ice for 120,000 years.
The data is there to support the theory
that this planet hasn't always maintained its current orbit or axis
rotation. The north and south poles aren't carved in stone. The
gyroscopic function of a planet is subject to change. That change
changes everything, should that change occur also. There is no data
that would support the theory that there is a possibility for that to
become a factor regarding what could happen in the next twenty years.
That doesn't eliminate that as a possibility. That does eliminate any
warm fuzzies from the discussion if one were to project that at some
point in the future, even as early as twenty years from now, the Ice
Age will have begun a new cycle with the anticipation that the next
one is going to follow the same patterns of glacial activity that the
last one did.
Given that this is still within the
realm of possibility, one would anticipate a glacial landscape that
would include the start of a wall of ice that ends somewhere along
the banks of the Ohio River along the northern border of the State of
Kentucky, with Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois once again under the ice.
Climatologists study animal behavior as part of understanding climate
change. It would be a lot easier to derive some data from animal
migrations that would suggest whether or not the next Ice Age is
going to follow the same construct, were it not for the fact that
those animals have been forced into extinction or are so vastly
constraint as to not be able to respond in a timely manner. We know
the polar bears are moving somewhere else. We just don't know where
yet.
Astrophysics is a much thinner bit of
cosmic dust in the big picture, but that big picture doesn't take a
lot of space dust to become data. The stars go through cycles of
heating up and cooling down. There's a lot of them out there and we
don't get a lot of dust from the cosmos, not that we can screen out
and sift through as such. That brings it back to a point of relevance
much closer to home, the sun. It is entering a 50 year cooling
period. That's what some scientists are saying. All it takes is one
small boulder to impact the planet to cause a huge amount of change
on the planet. We know this from the data that has been collected
from previous events. There's a lot of dust in sedimentary rock that
proves that point. We know the mathematical probability of such an
event occurring again. Recently there was an asteroid that passed
close enough to this planet for it to be observed via orbital
satellites. Computer models can work up the orbital paths of large
objects and know when they will coincide with our orbit. What hasn't
been finalized is the discovery of every asteroid out there. We don't
know.
What we do know is that there are a lot
of things happening all at the same time that could contribute to
radical climate change. Enter into this discussion a new book by
David Archibald, The Twilight of Abundance.
Professor Archibald got a quick
interview on Fox News recently to discuss his book. It is obvious
that Fox News has a different agenda than Professor Archibald from
the interview, but that is of little merit in the larger picture. It
happened. There was an interview. That is enough. I'd like to hear
more about the scientific process that the data was derived from that
lead astronomers and astrophysicists to the conclusion that the sun
is cooling down. That isn't Fox(worthy)News, so that didn't happen.
There's a lot of questions that come up
with this interview and book. Add them to the on-going discussion
regarding the transitional technology needed for the human species to
survive on this planet into, during, and beyond the next Ice Age.
I've been a participant of that discussion for the past 40 years. My
life's work has been based upon concerns regarding the transitional
technology needed for humanity to survive and remain inhabitants of
this planet. It is a precarious relationship at the most optimistic
end of the spectrum.
There won't be a Noah's Ark that will
come along and save us all. There never was one in the first place if
science is integrated into the conversation. That can be a perilous
place to move the conversation for those invested in non-realistic
mythos. It is unrealistic to suggest that all the species of animals
on this planet could have ever been boarded up on one boat and
survived for forty days. That isn't the important merit of that myth
when one discusses transitional technology. The first check mark
regarding the story is the fact that one man was able to intuit the
need to build a boat at a locality that would later be under water
after the ice melting at the end of the last Ice Age floated the
basin of what was to become the Mediterranean Sea. He was chided and
ridiculed prior to the event. He survived and left a mark on history
because of his efforts. No one knows if he was the only one that had
this insight and attempted a similar effort. It's a big sea and there
were a lot of people living in the area that is currently submerged
from that flooding. What we do know is that humans do have the
ability to foresee events in some manner and act to survive those
events. That is a very important bit of knowledge to ingest in the
overall discussion about what is about to happen.
The discussion hasn't been limited to
what we will be eating in 25 years, although that is an important
part of transitional technology regarding the Ice Age. One event that
I brought forth in the fall of 1990 was the Sacred Run for the Return
of the Buffalo as part of my vision (that role of envisioning what
can be done to make the world a better place to live for the next
seven generations) and I was able to continue this as an annual
ritual for a number of years as a contribution to the current list of
rituals that are being done within the Native American communities
across the North and South American continents among indigenous
peoples. That ritual, shortened to “The Bull Run”, was
discontinued as an annual event due to factors beyond my control, but
there are indications that it will be revived and continued once
those forces at play that deter it from being held are no longer
present. We'll see.
Equally important to me in my work is
the need to provide a way to convey important information over a long
period of time that can be accessed in a manner that transcends
language or cultural confluences. This need is a reversal of the
physical “Noah's Ark” anxiety. Invested with the ability to imbed
information in literary works, visual art, and audio recordings, I
have considered this challenge to be of some merit. Succinctly, I am
attempting to convey the spiritual information regarding the process
of liberation from the self-imposed limitations of awareness that are
a function of self-centered ego aberrations. I am attempting to do
this outside the current framework of culturally divested schools of
thought without leaving any of the information conveyed through those
schools of thought out of this archival project. Then we raise the
bar a little higher, just to make sure we surpass any construct of
possibility, and endeavor to make an object that will not only
survive for 100,000 years, but will contain information relevant to
the situation then that can be accessed from the physical object.
The most archival object that could be
used over a long period of time is pottery. It is more resistant to
acid rain than most stone would be. Stone carving is till a major way
of preserving information over long periods of time. Cave painting
has also served humanity in this manner longer than we are aware of
at this moment. Imparting information upon a cotton canvas via oil
paint or acrylic is less certain, but more intuitive in the range of
spectrum opportunities. These are pigments derived from the earth
after all. The lack of fire in the process as would be the manner of
preservation via pottery is duly noted. The use of gum Arabic as a
binder for watercolor on paper takes this information storage to
another level. The chances of survival are less probable. Getting
that information down and making it accessible for those that would
see the merits of making copies that would extend the existence of
that information further into the history of the future makes it more
effective on the working end of conveying the information in the
quickest manner possible, as there is a lot of information to be
conveyed. There are limitations but they become less a function of
reality in the long run if they are continually preserved through
duplication. The continued process of canonization of spiritual
information is a common practice among humans. Just don't anticipate
it being as good as the original work. (That's a joke, I think.)
The final point in this deconstructing
process is the need to impart a familiarity of this information to
the largest number of people possible over a broad spectrum of
humanity at this moment. That process is borne out of the
understanding that many of these people will participate in this
process further into the future via incarnate beings. That point
isn't limited to any construct regarding reincarnation. There isn't
any concern for what a person believes. That is their spiritual
challenge and human reality transcends belief systems that would
impart limitations upon their spiritual growth. There is little
impetuous to support this process in a social environment that is
invested in a materialistic, ego-centric construct. However
altruistic (or not) a person might be, the Universe recycles, and I
am participating in that process over a large span of time. So is
everyone else. It isn't a choice. The choice is how that person
integrates into that process. The model of deconstruction imparts an
awareness of choosing without implying the outcome of individualistic
choices. There will be participants.
end of transmission
Oliver Loveday © April 28, 2014 12:30
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